Consumer prices · 1,295 categories · latest 2026-08-01
The same category from more than one publisher. The national statistics office is the record; the IMF's series are its own compilation and can differ in definition, coverage and vintage.
INEC's current family uses the office's own linked history; the native 2014-base series remain separate.
INEC publishes national, Coast, Highlands, and nine-city headline series; classification detail is national.
Sources: Fuente: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC), Ecuador, Índice de Precios al Consumidor. Licencia CC BY 4.0. (as of 2026-09-18); International Monetary Fund (as of 2026-09-17). Collected by Living Inflation Data, HBS Innovations in Economic Measurement (IEM) Lab www.iemlab.org.
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1 recorded finding for this country, shown exactly as in the full quality register.
| Country | Source | Periods | Status | Series | Found | Detected by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecuador | IMF | 2026-05-01 | confirmed | ECU.CPI_CP04_* | 2026-09-02 | Possible index rebasing |
| Ecuador's housing index steps 127.69 -> 101.29 in May 2026, -20.7%, and that is the newest month held -- there is no 'afterwards' to look at yet, so the shape test the other entries rest on cannot be run. Landing at 101.29 is consistent with a re-reference, and it is the only thing pointing that way. Worth returning to once a few more months arrive: this is the one case in the register that a later fetch will settle by itself. The step is permanent, confined to one division, and not a revision: these values were published this way. What the data CANNOT settle is whether the division was put on a new base by itself or its prices really fell, because both produce exactly this shape and nothing held here separates them -- the series is verified at 100 in the reference period the source declares, which is true either way. The country's headline index barely moves in the same month, which is suggestive and not conclusive: these are mostly light divisions, so a real fall would leave only a small mark on the aggregate. What IS certain is the consequence, because the source's own rates are this index restated -- the published month-over-month and year-over-year figures equal the index ratios at all 388,805 and 370,534 overlapping cells, checked 2026-09-02. So if the step is a re-reference, the source's own rates divide across it, and the reader has to be told. | ||||||